Workers of the Presidential Amnesty Office have raised the alarm over the employ­ment of indigenes of the Ni­ger Delta from the Presiden­tial Amnesty Office by the Interim Administrator, Maj Gen BT Ndiomu (Retd).

Some of the workers link the current move to alleged leakage of information on the activities of the leadership of the office.

Investigations revealed that indigenous people of the Niger Delta in strategic posi­tions were deployed back to the ministries and replaced.

According to the sourc­es, those employed included Oloye Kebbi (Peace Building Department), Mr. Okhuba – (Peace Building), Kennedy Febau ) Peace Building Unit), Ebiere Ayamah (Vocation­al Training Unit) and Jude Gbaboyor (Data/ICT).

It was learnt that Jude was deployed to Warri Delta State.

Others were, “Highcoast Ombe (Post Training Unit), Samuel Sunday (Post Train­ing Unit), Pere Ikuetemi (Legal Dept), Gabriel Ajama (Data Unit) And Agiri Em­manuel, the Head of Data who was moved to Agabagba in Ondo State.

Ndiomu was said to have attributed the leakage of in­formation to the Niger Delta indigenes working in the office.

The workers who spoke on the condition of anonym­ity because they were not authorized to speak on it said that Ndiomu had authorized periodic seizure and search of the telephone of members of staff of the office.

There is the general belief that telephones are bugged.

They stated further that while the Niger Delta indi­genes were sent back to the ministries and others sent out of Abuja, over 80 persons have been employed in the Amnesty Office recently, most of them from Kogi.

The Head of Administra­tion, Mrs Khairat Balogun, is from Kogi State. Mrs Balogun, a staff of NTA, was recently re­placed with a new Head of Ad­ministration but she held back.

The new Head of Admin­istration deployed from the Office of the Head of Service, has been left without an office while the Human Resources component has been removed from the Admin Department and put under Balogun’s su­pervision.

The affected Amnesty staff were removed with the claim by Ndiomu that his mission was to shut down the pro­gramme.

Shortly before the end of the Buhari administration, the then National Security Adviser, Gen Monguno made moves to shut down the pro­gramme which was resisted by the leaders and people of the Niger Delta.(Daily Independent)